The Night Death Passed Over

The tenth plague is the hinge on which all of Israel’s history turns. God announces what is coming with terrible clarity: every firstborn in Egypt will die. But He also provides a way of escape—a lamb, slaughtered at twilight, its blood painted on the doorposts. This is not magic; it is obedience made visible. The lamb dies so the household lives. Centuries later, another Lamb will stand in a garden and say ‘Not my will, but yours.’ The echoes are not accidental. The instructions are remarkably specific: eat with your sandals on, your staff in hand, eating in haste. This is a meal for people who are about to be set free and must be ready to move at a moment’s notice. At midnight, the cry goes up across Egypt—a grief so vast that Pharaoh finally, irrevocably, lets them go. The Israelites leave with the wealth of Egypt pressed into their hands by terrified neighbors. Four hundred and thirty years of slavery end in a single night. And God commands them to remember—to tell this story to their children and their children’s children, because a people who forget their deliverance will eventually forget their Deliverer.

00:00 The Final Plague Announced
01:00 Instructions for Passover
03:00 The Blood on the Doorposts
05:00 Death of the Firstborn
06:00 The Exodus Begins
08:00 Instructions for Remembrance
10:00 Consecration of the Firstborn

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3. Did anything make you think differently about God?
4. How might this change the way we live?

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